Hi folks,

Hi Musashi, Gullible Jones, and Ut,

Uh huh. :-k

See the thing is, I don't want to bring problems to the cyber cafes. It's just that I get the feeling that their capacity to deal with problems can far exceed mine. I've seen them take care of in seconds what I and my friends might take hours to do.

As for transferance,

the idea is to turn an MP3 audio file in to a CD that can be played on a CD player--which I've done.
Now, would this CD be safe to put on my own computer--for private listening and making compilation CDs?
Ditto, to an extent with videos.
It may sound like I'm asking the question all over again--and forgive me if it sounds like it--I just want to make it clear.


As for why I want so many songs--I suppose I'm one of those "rock nerds."

Take the song "Wild Thing." It's not enough that I have the Trogs version; I want the version from Hendrix, X, Sam Kinnison, from the Something Wild soundtrack, even the Creatures version.


As for Ut's advice--which sounds perhaps the most useful here--as good as the others are--the idea isn't (just to) pirate those who are insistent on copyrights. There are a number of Websites that are quite open about sharing their stuff;
http://www.gaiaconsort.com/lyrics.html
and I think that the laws may not apply to some of the other stuff I'm been trying to download--such as Paul Robeson--who died 28 years ago, and likely has songs recorded 22 years earlier.

Again, I'm trying to avoid this "malware" as you folks have been calling it.

Again thanks for the help and comments of all.